Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
LIVYMen’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
More Livy Quotes
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All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
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From abundance springs safety.
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The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
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Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.
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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself – something that’s in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.
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Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.
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Woe to the conquered.
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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.
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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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